Kilometer-long lines of cars, frustrated drivers, and drivers honking. All this awaits Ana every morning when she goes to work in Sarajevo.
Ana lives 90 kilometers from the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). On average, it would take her an hour and twenty minutes to get to work, but because of the traffic at the entrance and exit from Sarajevo, she loses an additional 40 minutes.
“The feelings are a mixture of anger, helplessness, and sadness that I have to be late every day, and I have no other choice. I have no other way to enter Sarajevo because there is traffic every day at all four entrances,” says Ana.
The traffic congestion on the road at the entrance to the capital of BiH would be reduced by the construction of the Sarajevo Bypass.
Its construction began in 2007, and it is a 17-kilometer-long road that would connect the capital of BiH with the highway on Corridor Vc.
The last section, one and a half kilometers long, has been under construction for almost three years. It cost 12 million euros and was supposed to be built in February last year.
How did it all begin?
Highways of the Federation of BiH (FBiH) is the implementer of the project. The project documentation was done back in 2008.
Five years ago, as they said, they started resolving property and legal relations, which in November of last year resulted in the complete suspension of construction and the breaking of deadlines.
The works were stopped due to the request of the local community to provide access to certain companies and institutions to that expressway.
For this reason, a modification of the entire project and construction permit was requested, the approval of which is still awaited, Slobodna Evropa reports.
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